imagination
91imagination — Synonyms and related words: apparition, brainchild, bubble, chimera, creativity, delirium, eidolon, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, hallucination, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imaginativeness, imagining, ingenuity, insight,… …
92IMAGINATION — the name appropriate to the highest faculty of man, and defined by Ruskin as mental creation, in the exercise of which the human being discharges his highest function as a responsible being, the defect of which on common minds it is the main… …
93imagination — Used by AV for ‘thinking’ (REB, NRSV; ‘arguments’, NJB) at Rom. 1:21. Also at 2 Cor. 10:4–5, where NRSV has ‘arguments’, REB ‘sophistries’, NJB ‘presumptive notion’. These translations convey the force of the Greek noun, which is of an evil… …
94imagination — (khayal, takhyil) See aesthetics; Ibn al ‘Arabi …
95Imagination — I|ma|gi|na|ti|on 〈f.; Gen.: , Pl.: en〉 1. Einbildung 2. Einbildungskraft, Vorstellungskraft [Etym.: <lat. imaginatio »Einbildung, Vorstellung«] …
96Imagination — Imaginatio̱n w; , en: Einbildung, Vorstellung; Einbildungskraft …
97imagination — im·ag·i·na·tion || ɪ‚mædʒɪ neɪʃn n. ability of the mind to create mental images which do not literally exist; creation of such mental images …
98imagination — noun the faculty or action of forming ideas or mental images. ↘the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful. Origin ME: via OFr. from L. imaginatio(n ), from imaginari picture to oneself , from imago, imagin image …
99imagination — n. 1. Conception (united with the faculty of recombining ideas so as to form a new creation), invention, ideality, creative power, plastic power, fancy, fantasy. 2. Imaginative faculty, faculty of original conception, faculty of invention,… …
100imagination — n 1. imaginative faculty, imaging power, creative power; imaginativeness; fancy, mind s eye, castle building, dreaming, reverie, daydream; originality, creativity, resourcefulness, inventiveness. 2. mental image, concept, conception,… …
